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World War I did not officially end until the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. Until then, thousands of American men were deployed, overseas in Europe. Europeans looking for work no longer moved to America and were recruited by militaries, instead. This left a myriad of jobs open in the North, especially, and African Americans were quick to fill many of them. Agents were even sent south to convince blacks to migrate north and work in factories and industries; In the north, they would be paid $2.00 to $2.50 per day, which was about more than twice what blacks earned in the agricultural south ; this made it easy for them to be persuaded into leaving their employers and joining the migration (Early, "Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns.") .